Wagon-reach



(No Mdel.)

C. F. BILHORN.

WAGON REACH.

No. 263,10w5. Patented Aug. 22, 1882..

i NrTEiDA STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN F. BILHORN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WAGON-REACH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.\263,105, dated August22, 1882. Application filed March 3], 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN F. BILHORN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Running-Gears for Wagons, ot' which the followingis a specification, refer- Yence being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a planview of a running-gear embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a detail viewin vertical longitudinal section and on an enlarged scale of theking-bolt and adjacent parts, and Fig. 3 a front elevation of the frontupright rod shown in Fig. 2.

My invention relates to the bracing of the rnb-iron and ofthe rear axle.

My invention consists, first, ofareach branch'- ing at both ends,combined with the rear axle and with rear axle-braces, which connectwith the reach at the point where its branches couneet with each other;second, of a reach braced laterally at the location ot' the rub-iron 5and, iinally, of details of construction hereinafter described, anddefinitely pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, A represents a reach branching at each end,4which hasbeen reduced to the requisite shape from straight timbers cut with thegrain by the usual means employed for steaming and bending wood. It iscomposed of two parts, c c, connected together, as shown, by an iron,a', each side of which projects beyond the corresponding side of thereach to form a rub-iron.

B is a nt'th-wheel, havinga crosspiece, b, by which it is fastened tothe front axle. A counterpart-wheel is secured to the head-block.

D is the head-block; E, the frontaxle; F, the rear axle; Gr G, rearaxle-braces, which connect with the reach at the junction of the partsda; H, the king-bolt; I I, braces extending from the king-bolt to thebranches of the reach, and forming, with the plate J and rod K, theusual safety-lock for preventing braces II down ward,which is usuallynecessary 5 5 in order to allow of the turning of the front axle.

The advantage of connecting the rear axle-j braces at the junction ofthe branches of the reach is that the tendency ofthe former to deflectthe reach laterally is met by the forward ends of the branchestheirbasethc headblock being supported against deflection by its connectionwith thc wagon-body.

The advantage of bracing tbe rub-iron, as shown, from either thehead-block or rear axle, or both, is too obvious to require elaboration.The forward branches of the reach not only act as braces, but arepreferably themselves braced midway by the braces I I, which thus servethe double purpose ot' forming braces and a part ot' the safety-lock.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A reach having a rub-iron braced against lateral deflection,substantially as set forth.

2. The reach A, branching at its forward end, in combination with thebraces I I, substantially as set forth.

3. A wagon-reach consisting in its forward part of arms divergin gforwardly, in combination with a head-block having its rear surface incontact with the forward ends of the arms,

substantially as and for the purposes described.

CHRISTIAN F. BILHORN.

Witnesses:

GEO. R. CUTLER, W. C. GoRLIEs.

